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Re: Confused about parameters again

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Confused about parameters again
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:07:27 +0000
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"Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> However, there's apparently a difference between invoking
> 
> count-arguments () { print $# }
> 
> as
> 
> % local empty=
> % count-arguments $empty
> 
> and
> 
> % count-arguments "$empty"

Right, that's completely standard in Bourne-style shells.  See the
description in the user guide I referred two a couple of weeks ago:

http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/zshguide03.html#l50

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